monchou designs

​Some people grab life by the horns. Others trip spectacularly and get impaled by them.

My path to the world of art and creativity has been twisted and meandering, with endless potholes, roadwork and detours along the way. Despite art seeming to have been the destination from a very young age, I did turns working in bookstores, delivering autism therapy, managing charities and fundraising, working as a bookkeeper, and a particularly hair-brained stint as a registered nurse, despite having negligible social skills and little patience for sick people, all before the colliding forces of the universe finally landed me here.

I make messes and piles of mistakes. I start dozens of paintings and finish a handful. I fiddle around with other things, like puppetry and theatre, problem-solving to create unusual props and costumes and masks and stuff. I usually have paint under my fingernails and glue on my clothes.

I don't cook or garden and the general state of the house is one of barely controlled mayhem. I do however know everything worth knowing about Star Wars, Star Trek and Harry Potter, and quite a bit about Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. Living in a sturdy log home, high on a hill in beautiful Metchosin BC, I am fully prepared for (and kind of excited about) the coming zombie/alien/robot apocalypse.